An 18-year-old Riley Township man may have thought he was being funny when he threatened to shoot fellow employees at an Armada Subway store on Main Street but police and courts sure don’t agree.

Armada Village police arrested Alex David Rosario, 18, and charged him with domestic terrorism. He is facing 20 years in prison, according to Armada police Chief Howard Smith.

Rosario also is being held in the Macomb County Jail on $500,000 cash or surety bond set by 42-1 District Judge Denis LeDuc.

Smith said the threats were sent over Twitter. The threats have been captured by Armada police who will use the statement as evidence against him.

Smith further said the threat made employees at the Subway nervous.

Smith said management at Subway rated their employees recently as part of an employee improvement plan and Rosario was identified as a “relatively good employee.” Management also was not overly critical of him.

Rosario osario was a student at Armada Continuing Education (ACE) when he made the threats. He was recently placed on probation for possession of narcotics paraphernalia, Smith said. If he had not been expelled for the drug charge he would have graduated on time in June, according to Smith.

“We feel threatening to kill somebody is not a joke,” said Smith. “It doesn’t appear the prosecutor takes it as a joke either and the judge certainly doesn’t.”

After the threats were made Subway supervision terminated Rosario. He then made threats to students attending Armada High School located in Armada Township and was expelled by the Armada Board of Education.

The threat at the high school is being investigated by Michigan State Police detectives.

Smith said police arrested Rosario on Friday afternoon in his house without incident. He said just before Rosario was arrested he managed to send a posting on Twitter telling one of his friend he was about to get arrested.

A preliminary examination is scheduled in Judge LeDuc’s court for 9 a.m. on Feb. 5.

I went to school with this kid for a couple years. He thinks he was being funny when he tweeted it. Not so funny now. I hope he gets some kind of prison time to straighten him out because he was a douche in school.

Not just youth but society as a whole, disconnect between short term and long term situations. How many idiots do you encounter on a day to day basis that don't understand how today's actions can affect tomorrows situation?

lolololol i know who that kid is too. that subway must be fucked up, last time something happened there it was about some girl getting her iphone stolen and thinking she was gonna be awarded $10,000 dollars cash when they found out who stole it. signs and shit posted everywhere, you'd think someone lost their 3yr. old kid.

Not just youth but society as a whole, disconnect between short term and long term situations. How many idiots do you encounter on a day to day basis that don't understand how today's actions can affect tomorrows situation?

People have always said those types of things. The difference then to now is that in the olden days when I was young the words were just spoken, so there was no record of them, and most people just ignored it most of the time.

lolololol i know who that kid is too. that subway must be fucked up, last time something happened there it was about some girl getting her iphone stolen and thinking she was gonna be awarded $10,000 dollars cash when they found out who stole it. signs and shit posted everywhere, you'd think someone lost their 3yr. old kid.